Update: Martinez's campaign says he has filed a police report and that the LAPD is investigating the threatening language in Trujillo's email.

In the contentious battle for the city's Eastside council seat, things took a turn for the strange over the weekend as a campaign consultant for incumbent L.A. city Councilman Jose Huizar was fired from the politician's team for sending out an email that used some violent imagery.

The blast to more than a dozen supporters boasted that challenger Rudy Martinez was about to get a "political bullet" in his forehead and "pee in his pants too" after the Los Angeles Times "breaks" a story he indicates it was preparing. Added: The piece came out Saturday.

The email states:

"I was treating him [Martinez] like I was a cat playing with a trapped mouse, well now he's going to be the dead rat he really is."